Cairns Festival RADF Grant Round

Open

Arts and Culture

Up to $10,000

About the Cairns Festival RADF Grant Round

Calling all artists, arts organisations, community groups, and youth and disability services!

We invite you to express your interest in joining the Cairns Festival 2025 program. If selected, you will have the opportunity to apply for funding through the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) to support your project.

We have a vision, to transform Cairns Festival into an international arts festival that presents surprising and immersive visual and performing arts experiences. We are seeking new work from local practitioners, emerging, experimental, and professional, that help us to reach this vision – to be surprising and immersive.

Applicants can apply for up to $10,000.

Who can apply?

individual professional artists
emerging professional artists
arts workers
cultural workers
project coordinators
collective/artist-run initiatives & groups. (Note: non-incorporated groups must be auspiced by an incorporated organisation, or an individual with an ABN)
incorporated arts and cultural organisation